Example sentences of "[adj] be [Wh det] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safe rave tabs — could this be what I 'm looking for ? |
| 2 | ‘ This is what I am telling 'er always , ’ Madame sighed . |
| 3 | This is what I am doing : — |
| 4 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 5 | Syntactic behaviour and contrastiveness aside , it is tempting to interpret a Chinese-style topic in the same way as theme , that is , as meaning something like ‘ This is my starting point ; this is what I am talking about . ’ |
| 6 | You should just you this is what I 'm trying to tell |
| 7 | this is what I 'm trying to tell everybody at school , you should n't be thinking oh , how 's it gon na effect me , what I 'll do if |
| 8 | up that wee bit there , and I think this is what I 'm seeing , |
| 9 | And this is what I 'm thinking of doing , so do n't laugh at me , because I 'm thinking of doing it . |
| 10 | Well , well , this this is what I 'm getting at , Mr Chairman , Mr Chairman . |
| 11 | This is what I 'm getting all the time yeah . |
| 12 | This is what I 'm gon na do — lemme ask you something , right ? ’ |
| 13 | Both parties can get something from that situation , if you trust people and you look at things a relationship over a period of time rather than this particular thing this is what I want now this is what I 'm gon na get rather than well okay I 'll help you do this now and later on they 'll help me do something else , it becomes a win win . |
| 14 | it 's beautiful this is what I 'm gon na do in ten years time |
| 15 | ‘ This is what I 'm going to do , ’ crooned Doyle , in the same , soft voice . |
| 16 | Well , this is what I 'm going to do . |
| 17 | And this is what I 'm going into . |
| 18 | The er I 've got to keep an eye on my watch , this is what I 'm going by ! |
| 19 | See th this is what I 'm saying , you 'd done all them hours and then you was at it again on the weekend . |
| 20 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
| 21 | That 's right , this is what I 'm saying . |
| 22 | Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that . |
| 23 | This is what I 'm saying whe with it , with it being |
| 24 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 25 | so this is what I 'm saying how come that the she 's still got the poll , we have to , got to pay poll tax at that rate because she 's not working |
| 26 | The main questions you ask , the more he 'll believe , he do n't ask , it 's , it 's , it 's all about , this is what I 'm saying about erm reacting , eh when basically what you would is you 'd make a statement , tell him something and then ask him a question , which is what you did anyway , but I do n't know if you 're always aware of what you 're doing , you 're doing , you do it naturally , selling is about making statements and then asking questions , you do it when you telephone customers all the time |
| 27 | Well this is what I 'm saying ! |
| 28 | Billy 'd have to be , yeah , this is what I 'm saying , and then we like we 'd move up so Emma sit next to him , but she would n't knowing her . |
| 29 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 30 | Well this is , this is what I 'm wondering , unless it 's something from say tedious it 's boring and think of necessarily boring being tedious outside |